Events, talks, workshops

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Duets anthology launch and discussion, Kollectiv Folkestone, 7pm. Details and booking here

BBC Radio 4 Free Thinking, live at 9pm: A Pinch of Salt (available on iplayer afterwards)

Craft lab: Interrogating Fiction-writing Techniques,  5-week online course starts. Details and booking here

Folk Tales in New Fiction 7-week online writing course starts. Details and booking here

World Premiere of 'Long Have I Lain Beside the Water' (from Folk the song cycle), Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm. Book here

Spinning Tales from Myth and Folklore: creative writing workshop at Milton Keynes Book Festival, book here

Pre-concert talk with Zoe Gilbert (librettist) and Helen Grime (composer), Aldeburgh Festival, 6pm. Book here

Folk the song cycle, with the Knussen Chamber Orchestra and Claire Booth, Aldeburgh Festival, 7pm. Book here

Festival Walk, Tunstall Forest: getting creative with words in the woods as part of Aldeburgh Festival, 9.30am. Book here

River Medway Pilgrimage, details of creative writing workshop to follow here

Pre-concert talk with Zoe Gilbert (librettist) and Huw Watkins (composer), Freden Festival, Germany, 6pm. Book here

World Premiere of 'The Violin of Alois Rosetz' with James Gilchrist (tenor), Freden Festival, Germany, 7pm. Book here

Talk with composer Helen Grime on creating Folk the song cycle, Kollectiv, Folkestone (link to follow)

University of Oxford & Bloomsbury Fantasy Summer School. Info and booking here

World Premiere of 'Once there was Not' performed by Claire Booth, The Green Room, Folkestone (link to follow)

Sandgate Literary Festival: short stories, with Lucy Caldwell & Adam Marek (link to follow)

Sandgate Literary Festival: in conversation with fellow novelist Sophie Haydock (link to follow)

Folk Fiction Arvon residential course with Andrew Michael Hurley. Details and booking here